When I finally made the decision to pursue my Ph.D., I faced an immediate dilemma: Should I fork over the extra $75 to graduate summa cum laude with a nearly perfect GPA?
That, anyway, is the going rate for top grades at California South University,...

The pressure on high school seniors to apply to and be accepted at selective colleges is as intense as ever. Applications are up, acceptances are down, and mood swings can vacillate from hope to panic, and back again. Many candidates think a diploma...

"Legally Blonde," the hilarious musical based on the movie made famous by Reese Witherspoon, will take KO's Roberts Theater by storm later this month. Elle Woods, the iconic blonde of the story, is a pink-clad senior at UCLA when her perfect...

The chase for Chris Clark ended Wednesday morning when the tight end from Avon Old Farms signed a National Letter of Intent, choosing UCLA over Michigan.He ended a flurry of recruiting from many Division I Bowl Subdivision teams during the past year...

Eleven years ago, four high school boys from Phoenix won a nationwide robotics competition sponsored by NASA, beating students from MIT, among other competitors. They became science-world darlings, a team of undocumented immigrant teenagers from Mexico...

Top-ranked Kentucky absolutely humiliated UCLA Saturday, scoring the first 24 points of the game, leading 41-7 at halftime and going on to an 83-42 victory in Chicago. Sadly for UCLA, this mess was on national television. It looked like one of those...

The 12-day break that bridged UConn's victories over Notre Dame on Dec. 6 and DePaul on Friday was not spent nonchalantly. It was exam time, and by Dec. 13, each UConn player had finished her academic requirements.
This is always a nervous time around...

UNCASVILLE — Rebecca Lobo said Sunday she believes UConn center Kiah Stokes will have a long and successful WNBA career.
"I think she is going to be a really good WNBA player and there's a few reasons I believe so," Lobo said before working...

UNCASVILLE — The weather outside was frightful, enough to explain how disoriented sun-splashed UCLA could have looked on the day winter came to Mohegan Sun Arena. But the Bruins looked quite comfortable for most of Sunday. Chill, so to speak.
It was...

The 12-day break that bridged UConn’s victories over Notre Dame on Dec. 6 and DePaul on Friday was not spent nonchalantly. It was exam time and by last Saturday each of its players had finished their academic requirements. This is always...

At a recent meeting of the state's Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, the mother of one of the 20 children killed two years ago said trying to get help has been at best confusing, and at worst impossible, for many families.
"It is absolutely...

Sure, the men's college basketball season is still young, but the Big East looks like a beast again.
Butler's 74-66 victory over No. 5 North Carolina in the opening game of the Battle 4 Atlantis moved the overall record of Big East teams to 37-2. This...

In addition to Daniel Hamilton - he's featured in another story – the UConn men’s basketball team welcomes three additional new faces to the roster for 2014-15. Here’s a closer look at each.
G Rodney Purvis, Raleigh, N.C.Purvis, a sophomore, was one of...

STORRS — He had made an anonymous $3 million gift a few years ago. And even as he pledged to match $5 million more in donations toward the construction of a new soccer complex, the largest single donor in UConn athletics history had to be encouraged to...

Hartford architect Henry Darbee paid $1 in 1957 for a hillside lot so steep that it sat on the market more than 30 years.
Darbee, whose credits included work on the Mark Twain Memorial and Wadsworth Atheneum, built himself and his wife a spacious...

BRIDGEPORT — No program in the Big East Conference seemed to benefit more from the departure of Notre Dame and UConn before last season than DePaul. But Blue Demons coach Doug Bruno doesn't look at it quite that way.
"When we were living [the...

Did gay, lesbian and bisexual voters push Gov. Dannel P. Malloy over the finish line?
A new study suggests the gay vote may have played a role in helping Malloy, a Democrat who has long been a strong supporter of gay rights, beat Republican Tom Foley...